Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Sheff Utd

[Villan_of_oz]

As an Aussie I find it very hard to criticise Jedinak at all, he has been an absolute warrior for my country and was a very decent premier league footballer. So I say this with a heavy heart, please DS never ever play him again, if we are that desperate then put a kid in there to see what they can do.

Mile if you happen to read this, I'm sorry

Edited February 9, 2019 by Villan_of_oz

[PompeyVillan]

That was a spirited comeback, credit where it is due, I don't think much of our squad but they're quite good a digging in. Just a shame that it is desperation to keep the wolves from the door that motivated them to play. 

[Talldarkandransome]

If the ref spent less time worrying about a moving ball on free kicks well inside your own half and more time on offside goals and two penalties we would have won that. And that would have been undeserved. I'm loving the resilience and never say die attitude but God we were rubbish for 75 mins. 

Liking Tyrone Mings, wants the ball and to play it out from the back.

[vreitti]

2 minutes ago, TRO said:

Not sure whether to laugh or cry.

Shockingly embarrassing for 70 minutes....not sure either where that come back came from, seemed like they got tired ,so we started.

Its happened too many times to be a coincidence....this team of ours has some real issues.

 

It certainly does, but the manager, head coach or whatever he's called nowadays, is not one of them.

[PompeyVillan]

1 minute ago, Villan_of_oz said:

As an Aussie I find it very hard to criticise Jedinak at all, he has been absolute warrior for a country and was a very decent premier league footballer. So I say this with a heavy heart, please DS never ever play him again, if we are that desperate put a kid in there to see what they can do.

Mile if you happen to read this, I'm sorry

He's slow and terrible at passing. Time to retire. 

[briny_ear]

6 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said:

He might do when he has signed a few of his own players.

Give him a chance, Briny. 

Or should we just sack him now?

It would be quite costly to sack him I imagine.

[M_Afro]

I am sorry but that was awful. I feel so mixed up, really excited by the end but it is impossible to ignore the first 80 minutes when we didn’t even trouble them once. Smith was a huge gamble that is not paying off. I want it to work but he will be gone before the start of next season. Totally out of his depth. I know I will get abuse for this post but I don’t care. If you are happy with what is happening then you do not understand football.

[Agbonla-score]

I was about to grab a bottle of whiskey at 80 minutes. Now I'm going out to the shed to play some choons

[Delphinho123]

Maybe I’m wrong, and it seems a lot of people disagree with me but I think Smith is getting a hell of a lot from a very poor squad of players. 

I’m looking forward to seeing what he can achieve when he’s given time to get rid of the likes of Taylor, Hutton and Jedinak and bring in his own players.

If we’re still poor then, I agree, we should look to get rid of Smith but calling for his head now is utter lunacy. 

[Villan_of_oz]

Just now, PompeyVillan said:

He's slow and terrible at passing. Time to retire. 

Pretty sure that is what I just said

[sidcow]

Scenes 

[LondonVillian]

DS just said we were the better the team hahahhaha

[tinker]

How good am I ? Lol UTV

[KentVillan]

On Dean Smith's performance, I think the only clear mistake he made in terms of team selection was bringing Jedinak in. He doesn't look fit, was off the pace, and then picked up a pointless yellow card. Whelan isn't a great option, but when he came on we looked much sharper in the middle.

You can argue about the Kodjia selection, but the logic of that made sense to me.

Mings signing looks smart, as does bringing Green back.

DS clearly hasn't lost the dressing room - El Ghazi lost the ball at one point and tracked back most of the length of the pitch to win it back. The spirit at the end to bring the result back showed real passion and belief.

I also thought Hutton had a decent game going forward, although not perfect defensively.

Things that bothered me:

• We had a plan from the outset to play the diagonal ball over their RCB. Fine, you've identified a weakness, but we kept doing it over and over again, from all over the pitch. If your wingers are your best attacking threat, then it makes sense, but basically we were removing McGinn from the game and conceding possession. We don't play like this when we have Grealish in the team.
• Neil Taylor's positioning just absolute dog shit as usual. On their 2nd or 3rd goal (can't remember which) he comes charging out to mark the wide man and leaves a massive gap between him and Mings, which their midfielder runs into (admittedly Jedinak doesn't track the run, but I think he's expecting the defence to deal with it). This is basic full back defending (the position Taylor has somehow played all his life) - if you have a choice, stay narrow. Don't go wide unless the ball is wide, or you're in possession.
• Hourihane hasn't got it. Great set piece delivery, but he gave away a pointless foul in the run up to the first goal.
• The refereeing. Offside and foul for second goal. Two pens for us imo, expect at least one of them to be given.
• Jedinak should retire. I was hopeful when I saw him in the lineup, because we've needed someone to have a good game in that possession, but he looked well off the pace, both physically and in terms of his attitude. Didn't show any desire.

[Delphinho123]

Just now, briny_ear said:

It would be quite costly to sack him I imagine.

It probably would but that’s neither here nor there.

I genuinely cannot believe people are expecting him to do more with the squad of players he has at his disposal. Even more so with Grealish injured.

Sack him by all means briny but at least give him 12 months and a couple of transfer Windows first, otherwise, we may as well all go home now.

[brummybloke]

10 minutes ago, Villan_of_oz said:

That is a bit harsh Mrs N'Zogbia

That was put on my profile by some cock Smith staff on this board because I dared say n'zogbia was a waste of space and rubbish.

Obviously n'zogbia was scoring with his mum ? 

[TheStagMan]

12 minutes ago, briny_ear said:

 

i’m afraid this match just strengthens my view that Smith won't get us much higher that top half of the Championship.

May be exciting to watch but it won’t get us promoted.

Perhaps you would like to do him the courtesy of giving him some time to sort out the mess he inherited, like you did to the very end with the last manager. 

[weedman]

6 minutes ago, Villan_of_oz said:

As an Aussie I find it very hard to criticise Jedinak at all, he has been absolute warrior for my country and was a very decent premier league footballer. So I say this with a heavy heart, please DS never ever play him again, if we are that desperate put a kid in there to see what they can do.

Mile if you happen to read this, I'm sorry

My sentiments exactly, he's been class, but his time is over, he was awful today 

[Villan_of_oz]

Just now, brummybloke said:

That was put on my profile by some cock Smith staff on this board because I dared say n'zogbia was a waste of space and rubbish.

Obviously n'zogbia was scoring with his mum ? 

Have you seen my name, its just banter and pretty funny

[rjw63]

17 minutes ago, jjaacckk91 said:

That's a blast from the past